Attrition: Ebola Chases Away Peacekeepers
Somalia has asked that no more peacekeepers from central or western Africa come to Somalia for a while. This is all about fear that the Ebola Virus outbreak in West Africa spreading to Somalia. Such a...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Child Soldiers Thrust into Battle
Juba, – South Sudan’s army has used child soldiers during recent fighting against opposition forces in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch said today. South Sudan’s former rebel forces,...
View ArticleBiometrics expert is helping to ensure an honest election in Somaliland
By William G. GilroyMention the name Somaliland, and most people will have images from the movies “Black Hawk Down” and “Captain Phillips” spring to mind. However, those images are more correctly...
View ArticleWarka Raadiyo Wardheer
Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah:War-murtiyeed laga soo saaray kulan u dhaxeeyay xildhibaanno ka mid ah baarlamaanka Fadaraalka Soomaaliya iyo maamulka Puntland oo maalmihii tagay ku sugnaa...
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AMISOM to leave Somalia in 2016 – envoy
Acting Special Envoy to Somalia Lydia Wanyoto (right) talks to Somalia Ambassador to Uganda Saidi Dahir centre) while Omar Alasow looks on, during the International Human Rights ToT workshop for senior...
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South African lawmakers chant ‘pay back the money’ at Zuma
(Reuters) – South Africa’s national assembly was brought to a halt on Thursday as far-left lawmakers noisily chanted “pay back the money” at President Jacob Zuma, after $23 million in public funds was...
View ArticleSomali child soldiers ‘punished’ in foreign-funded camps: UN
Nairobi, Former child soldiers in war-torn Somalia are being held in prison conditions in foreign-funded camps, “punishing” rather than rehabilitating them, the top UN children’s envoy said...
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Court bars deportation of Ethiopian to Somalia
Justice Isaac Lenaola on Thursday issued the prohibiting order after Mohammed Aden Ismail’s wife Shukri Abdihafid applied to the High Court seeking orders to block her husband’s...
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Somali government to extend cash rewards program
By Fuad Ahmed in MogadishuAlleged al-Shabaab fighters are loaded blindfolded onto a police truck on January 15, 2013, after being arrested during a security operation in Mogadishu. [Mohamed...
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Violence, threats, prompt more Muslim women in Britain to wear a veil
By Belinda Goldsmith and Olivia Harris Yasmin (L), 16, pushes Hana (C), 16, on a swing after finishing a GCSE exam near their school in Hackney, east London June 6, 2013. CREDIT: REUTERS/OLIVIA...
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Young woman called brother minutes before being raped
Court hears victim’s brother recount circumstances leading to his sister’s rapeBy Daniel MizziA 21-year-old woman who last year was allegedly raped by two Somali men in Hal Far called her brother...
View ArticleKENYA: MAN SAYS HE IS WANTED SOMALI TERROR SUSPECT
BY TOM ODULANAIROBI, Kenya — A Somali man in Kenyan police custody has admitted that he is Hassan Hanafi, who is wanted in Somalia for the killing of journalists, a senior Kenya police official said...
View ArticleSomali Militants Behead Abducted Kenyan Driver
By IANSNairobi, Militants of the Al Shabaab extremist organisation Friday beheaded a Kenyan driver who was kidnapped at Kiunga near the border with Somalia in the coastal town of Lamu.The body of...
View ArticleGuddoonka Baarlamaanka Oo Xoghayaha Guud Ee Golaha Shacabka Uga...
INAA LILAAHI WA INAA ILEEYHI RAAJICUUNGuddoomiyaha Baarlamaanka Federaalka Soomaaliya Md. Maxamed Sheekh Cusmaan Jawaari, Guddoomiye ku xigeenka Koobaad ee Baarlamaanka Md. Jeeylaani Nuur Iikar,...
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Wararka aan idiin hayno waxaa ka mid ah: Gedo oo la sheegaayo in maanta ay ka dhacday Duqayn loo geystay Saldhig ay ku lahaayeen shabaab deegaanka Godan Dhawe oo 19 km u jira Balad xaawo, Dowladda...
View ArticleGeeddigu Waa Xaggee?!
W.Q. Axmed Saciid Aw MuuseWaxaan aad u xasuusnahay 24kii bishii Oktoobar 1969kii. Haweenay ku labbisan guntiino, timuhu qaawan yihiin, garbasaartiina malaha jidka kaga soo luntay ee ordaysa uguna...
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Summary executions in Somalia
Recent executions in Somalia put the quality of justice delivered by military courts into question.By Laetitia BaderThree men found guilty by a Somali military court of killing civilians and...
View ArticleMuslim Immigrants Must Be Loyal To Countries They Live In
‘Joining Terror Outfits Un-Islamic’By: Khaled AljenfawiIt is rather difficult to fully understand the true nature of the manipulation terrorist groups use to recruit new jihadists. However, what many...
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Somali activists take aim at tribalism, push for national unity
By Abdi Moalim in MogadishuBoys show off their skills on a day out at Lido beach in Mogadishu on January 31, 2014. [AFP PHOTO / AU-UN IST / TOBIN JONES]A group of Somali activists are planning to...
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Wedding goes awry as ‘jini’ steals groom’s shoes at mosque
By Hamza BabuIt was supposed to be the wedding of the century. The stage was set. A Taarab maestro all the way from Zanzibar was going to perform. Finally, the nubile and very sexy Ibtisam, daughter of...
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